Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.Patricia Meyer Spacks
Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.
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Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But his dream, setting him apart, helps him to escape the burden of the real.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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